Example sentences of "[adv] big [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 2 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 3 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 4 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 5 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 6 | The lift was a little bigger than a phone box . |
| 7 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 8 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 9 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 10 | Your bum 's hardly bigger than a fist . |
| 11 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 12 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 13 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 14 | It was getting to be as big as a cathedral . |
| 15 | As big as a cathedral it stood , in red Midland brick and warm Oxford limestone , with the noon sun full upon it . |
| 16 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 17 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 18 | His Partagas perfecto was champed between his inner tube lips , a diamond as big as a buttercup sparkled on the starched front of his dress shirt , a long white silk scarf was casually looped around his lack of a neck . |
| 19 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 20 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 21 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 22 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 23 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 24 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 25 | He started to smoke incessantly , carrying around a cigarette box as big as a biscuit tin . |
| 26 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 27 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 28 | day we had a cat in our garden and er my dog is n't as big as a cat . |
| 29 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 30 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |